Toppairproductionathadroncolliders

AlexanderMitov

YangInstituteforTheoreticalPhysics SUNYStonyBrook

Toppairproduction

AlexanderMitov

Fermilab,21Jan2009

PrecisionintheLHCera

Precision=confidence!

vLO(leadingorder)=crudeestimateoftheresult

vNLO(nexttoleadingorder)=betterestimateoftheresult crudeestimateofuncertainty vNNLO=forthefirsttimequantifytheuncertainty

ThreeprecisionobservableshavebeenidentifiedfortheLHC:

Thethreepillars

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AlexanderMitov

Fermilab,21Jan2009

PrecisionintheLHCera:DrellYan

DrellYanleptonpairandvectorbosonproduction. luminositymeasurement determinationofPDFs

Anastasiouetal.03

DYisaSMprocess!

NNLOrapiditydistribution attheTevatron. Scalevariation: M/2< m <2M

Toppairproduction

AlexanderMitov

Fermilab,21Jan2009

Blastfromthepast:LEP

+ 3jetsatNNLO Thrustdistributionine e ScalevariationM /2<m <2M Z Z

GehrmannDeRidderetal.07

Toppairproduction

AlexanderMitov

Fermilab,21Jan2009

PrecisionintheLHCera:Higgs
Higgsproduction.Itsdiscoveryisnosimplematter!
CMS08

ATLPHYSCONF2008006

Hgg
1 integratedluminosity for1fb

Signalx10

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AlexanderMitov

Fermilab,21Jan2009

PrecisionintheLHCera:Topquark
Topiscentralforjustabouteverything: vWewanttostudyitdirectly(SM) butalso vVeryimportantforreducinguncertaintiesinotherobservables constraingluonPDFatlargerx, reduceuncertaintiesinanticorrelatedobservables: Examples:singetopandheavyHiggs vImportantforHiggs
+ ), vdirectbackground(inH W W

CTEQ08

vconceptuallylargeYukawacoupling!

Continues

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PrecisionintheLHCera:Topquark

vCentralcollidersignatureforBSMphysics: v isapreferreddecaymodeofTeVKKparticles

vTopmass(direct/xsection) AlternativedeterminationofM top fromcrosssection. Great,becausewewouldbeconfidentinwhatwemeasure!

Continues

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AlexanderMitov

Fermilab,21Jan2009

PrecisionintheLHCera:Topquark
Placeswherethetopmassiscrucial:Higgsmass Higgsinflation CDF+D008
PrecisionElectroweakMeasurementsandConstraintsontheStandardModel arXiv:0811.4682v1[hepex]

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PrecisionintheLHCera:Topquark
vTopisthemostchallengingcollidersignal: v2to2reaction(unlikeDrellYanandHiggs), vinvolvesfourcoloredparticles:colorcorrelations vmassive:itsmasscannotbeapproximatedasverysmallor verylarge vTheabovehaveledtomanytheoreticaldevelopments vpredictionofmassiveamplitudesathighenergy, vexponentiation,resummationandsingularitiesofmassiveamplitudes. vTheseresultscanbeappliedtomanymoreplaces (jets,ttHiggs,masslessamplitudesathigherorders,N=4SYMetc.)

Toppairproduction

AlexanderMitov

Fermilab,21Jan2009

PrecisionintheLHCera:Topquark
Anincredible,reallifeexamplefor

whyprecisionanddetailedunderstandingareveryimportant
Thehistoryofthetoppaircrosssectioncalculation: vCalculatedatNLO~20yearsago(numericapprox.) vNLLresummationwasdone~10yearsago J Itseemed: topwasadonedeal

J Itwasevencalled aplainvanilla. Butletshaveacloserlook:

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AlexanderMitov

Fermilab,21Jan2009

PrecisionintheLHCera:Topquark
Thepreviousresultswerebasedonnumericalfits(highquality1%)
Nason,Dawson,Ellis88 Beenakkeretal89

Onlynowtheexactresultcouldbecalculated(2monthsago)
M.Czakon,AM08

FirstexactresultbeyondLOina2to2reactionwithmasses
Comparethenewanalyticresultwiththeearliernumericalones.
2 s): Ofspecialinterestisthethresholdexpansion b 0(i.e.4m

Itispossibletopredict(throughresummation)theLL,NLL,behaviorofthecross sectionclosetothreshold.Helpfulinestablishingthetheoreticaluncertainties.

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AlexanderMitov

Fermilab,21Jan2009

PrecisionintheLHCera:Topquark
ExtractionoftheconstantC 3 inthethresholdlimit:
Itissoimportant, thereisanestablished notationforitJ

Czakon,AM08

Nason,Dawson,Ellis89

Xsectionbetterthan1% ButtheconstantC 3 is7%different! Turnsout,itisallconsistent Verysignificant(andunexpected)effectforthresholdresummation!

Toppairproduction

AlexanderMitov

Fermilab,21Jan2009

PrecisionintheLHCera:Topquark
Fromresummation, thefollowing2loop logscanbepredicted:

MochUwer08

2 Itturnsoutthecoefficientofln (b)isoftheform:

where:

AsextractedfromNDE89andusedinALLresummationliterature

Theexactvaluejustrecentlyderived Czakon,AM08

2 Thereforethecoefficientofln (b)becomes 912.35 i.e.achangebyafactorof260!

Note:thereasonis purenumerics!

Thisisa5%modificationto s,comparablewiththecurrentconservativeestimates (Cacciarietal08)oftheuncertaintyandratherlargewhencomparedto(Moch,Uwer08).

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AlexanderMitov

Fermilab,21Jan2009

PrecisionintheLHCera:Topquark
Thechangesdiscussedsofararepurelyduetonumerics. However:thereisanothermodificationcomparedtoearlierliterature ExponentiationinMellinspace:

Wewerethefirsttopointout sH dependonthecolorstateofthe heavyquarkpair.Wecalculatedthetwocoefficients. ChangeintheggSudakovresummed Xsection:comparetoBoncianietal98 C 3 numerics:5%, colorsingletchannel:12%, coloroctetchannel:3%,

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Fermilab,21Jan2009

Conclusions
vGreattimetoworkinhighenergyphysics! vLHCwillrevolutionizeourknowledgeoftheworld vDiscovertheHiggs,oritsrelativesJ vDiscoverNewPhysics:SUSY,extradimensions vImproveunderstandingaboutdarkmatterandearlyUniverse. vSuccessfulLHCprogramrequiresprecision tobeconfidentinwhatwemeasureandhowweinterpretit. vThechallengesaheadaregreat,andwearemoremotivatedthanever!

Staytuned!

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AlexanderMitov

Fermilab,21Jan2009

Whatoneneedstoknowabouttopproduction?
vUnderstandingtruescaleuncertaintyrequiresfullNNLOcalculation! vTheappropriateobservableisthetotalinclusivecrosssection. vSomeNNLOtermscanbeobtainedbytruncatingallorderresummation. isthisasystematicapproximation? Ingeneral,thisisapoorapproximationtofixedordercalculations: PhotonspectruminBs+g:
hepph/0505097 2 (nonBLM) z1approximationat as

TopXsection:NLOcorrection
arXiv:0811.4119 Masslessexpansion(6powers) Exactresult

2 (nonBLM) Exact as

Thresholdexpansion(6powers)

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AlexanderMitov

Fermilab,21Jan2009

BacktoPhenomenology
Whatourresultsactuallyimply? Conclusion#1: theearlierFONLOcalculationsareofhighquality

However:inthelast10yearsorso,allimprovementshavebeendoneby softgluonresummation(sincenonewFOresults)

Ideaofthresholdresummation:towersofln(b)termsinthetotalinclusive crosssection sTOT (b)canbepredictedtoallordersinthecoupling.

Conclusion#2: theresummationresultsarealteredbyourwork

Toppairproduction

AlexanderMitov

Fermilab,21Jan2009